urvile
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Because of interest, I am a software architect so it would be interesting if the case was the later...
The whole concept of things like folding@home, seti@home is that you lend your hardware to do calculations for others, the fact that he has full control doesn't make any difference, this was quite unique when it first arrived because before you where use to do such things in big super-computers build in large data centers... The fact that he is in full control doesn't change that fact, it just means he sets the terms for the lend...
The mere concept of building such software and infrastructure is super interesting...
It's not to belittle what he does, it just not as interesting to me (professionally)...
The distributed systems I have seen in industry are quite different. Where you can have a cluster that works off shared state in a data base. Then you can add and remove nodes (scale) depending on required throughput, availability etc.